{"id":10760,"date":"2014-05-01T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T21:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2025-04-29T23:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T23:21:45","slug":"ab60-bill-california-immigrant-drivers-license-study-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/auto\/ab60-bill-california-immigrant-drivers-license-study-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"California Immigrant Drivers\u2019 License- Study Now, Pass the Test"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assembly Bill 60, also known as AB 60<\/a>, the New Driver\u2019s License bill for California residents who do not have proof of legal U.S. immigration status, goes into effect on January 1, 2015. That gives those who want to get a legal driver\u2019s license just 7 months to study for the written test \u2013 which is why efforts are underway to prepare prospective drivers for the test. Those undocumented immigrants who are unlicensed and lack car insurance<\/a> should prepare now to ensure they\u2019re ready to qualify for their driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in October, 2013, AB 60 will allow all eligible drivers in California who cannot prove their legal immigration status to apply for a special driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The increased support to educate immigrants comes after Nevada\u2019s disastrous experience, where a new driver authorization card was offered to undocumented immigrants \u2013 in the first few weeks, 90 percent flunked Nevada\u2019s written test. After Nevada’s high failure rate, immigrants have been urged to start preparing for the written test early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California estimates 1.4 million people will apply for the license and plans to open five new offices to handle the predicted flood of new applications. Like legal residents, the undocumented immigrants will need to provide proof of identity and pass written and road tests to obtain the license, which will contain a distinct marker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What unlicensed drivers should do now:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn California\u2019s motor vehicle laws. DMV encourages future applicants for a driver’s license to prepare for the written exam by studying the California Driver Handbook, available on the DMV webpage. The website also features sample tests that can be helpful study material for the applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The California Driver Handbook<\/a> is available in 10 languages at all DMV field offices:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 English
\u2022 Armenian
\u2022 Chinese
\u2022 Farsi
\u2022 Korean
\u2022 Punjabi
\u2022 Russian
\u2022 Spanish
\u2022 Tagalog
\u2022 Vietnamese<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California is mounting support through a variety of ongoing educational actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Mexican Consulate in Oxnard is hosting monthly driver’s license test preparation classes.
\u2022 Santa Barbara City College is designing a 15-hour course in the fall on traffic rules and how to interact with police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

o 800-900 people on a waiting list for a driving class<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 California Department of Motor Vehicles has put together new audio materials in Spanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

o Webcasts and videos
o Workshops<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 The Mexican Consulate in Santa Ana is offering a free monthly test preparation class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From January 1, 2015, to June 30, 2017, immigrants who apply to obtain a driver\u2019s license may need to pay an additional fee to offset the cost of issuing these new licenses. DMV officials have not yet decided whether to increase the $33 application fee for undocumented residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enabling undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers\u2019 licenses and auto insurance will make the streets safer by giving drivers\u2019 training to people who would otherwise be driving on the streets without adequate education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are you concerned about obtaining a license or confused about AB 60? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assembly Bill 60, also known as AB 60, the New Driver\u2019s License bill for California residents who do not have proof of legal U.S. immigration status, goes into effect on January 1, 2015. That gives those who want to get a legal driver\u2019s license just 7 months to study for the written test \u2013 which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1002630,"featured_media":11020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"importance":[],"type-content":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1002630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11718,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions\/11718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"importance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/importance?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"type-content","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeway.com\/knowledge-center\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/type-content?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}